Essential stanford software get applications that help you plug into the stanford network sunet and access university computing services safely and securely. Wang subsequently moved to stanford, and started slork, the stanford laptop orchestra. Ccrma stage, stanford university april 30, 2020, thursday 7. Seemingly, the software problem is then also solved. The stanford laptop orchestra slork is a largescale, computermediated ensemble that explores cuttingedge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts while radically transforming both. Ge is the author of the chuck audio programming language, the founder and director of the stanford laptop orchestra slork, and of the stanford mobile phone orchestra mopho. At the intersection of music and computer science and. The stanford laptop orchestra slork celebrates the conclusion of its season with a concert in bing featuring works for the full ensemble of humans, laptops, new instruments, and. Slork uses the chuck programming language as its primary software platform for sound synthesisanalysis, instrument design, performance, and. The computer geeks in the stanford laptop orchestra celebrate ten years of musicmaking with a concert this weekend.
This video captures a performance of ge wangs twilight by the stanford laptop orchestra slork. Since then, stanfords program has created mathematical models to simulate the crisp sound of a. Show hardware for all form factors desktop laptop tablet. Sclork the santa clara laptop orchestra is an innovative ensemble of up to.
Plork is part of research at princeton university that investigates ways in which the computer can be integrated into conventional musicmaking contexts while also radically transforming those contexts. The stanford laptop orchestra slork is a largescale, computermediated ensemble and. Get applications that help you plug into the stanford network sunet and access university computing services safely and securely. In search of tools for the laptop orchestra econtact. Wangwho designs computerbased instruments and directs the. Created by artists rob hamilton and chris platz for the.
A laptop orchestra lork or lo or laptop ensemble le is a chamber music ensemble. The stanford laptop orchestra slork is a largescale, computermediated ensemble and classroom that explores cuttingedge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts while. Praised by the new york times for offering a paradoxically visceral. Sideband is an electroacoustic ensemble, comprised of composerperformers dedicated to exploring the potential of the laptop orchestra. The performers will also incorporate, q3osc, a virtual musical environment built on the quake iii opensource game engine used in concert performances by the. The stanford laptop orchestra slork is a largescale, computermediated ensemble that explores cuttingedge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts while radically. I work with designing software for music, everything from programming languages for example. Inspired by the classic sciencefiction short story twilight by john w. An ensemble of more than 20 humans, laptops, controllers, and special speaker arrays designed to.
Sclork college of arts and sciences santa clara university. Students connect them to their laptops and program them to produce. Virtual world music performance stanford humanities. Wang is the architect of the chuck music programming language, the founding director of the stanford laptop orchestra slork, cofounder of smule reaching over 200 million users and designer of. We will also be joined by ge wang, professor of music and computer science at stanford and author of the forthcoming book, artful design. The software at stanford site provides information about software available for use or purchase on campus. Ge is the author of the chuck music programming language, the founding director of the stanford laptop orchestra slork, the cofounder of smule reaching over 125 million users, the designer of the.
Behind the scenes at the stanford laptop orchestra kqed. He specializes in the art of design and computer music researching. When virtual reality and musical interface design collide, entire universes can be musical instruments. Slork uses the chuck programming language as its primary software. Behind the scenes with the stanford laptop orchestra wired. You may request a guest login if you are a stanford hospitalclinics staff, lucille packard childrens hospital, slac, pavir, hhmi, or any other stanford affiliate. Slorks not the most elegant name, so far as acronyms go, but stanfords weird and wonderful laptop orchestra wears it pretty well. Sclork builds upon the shared experience of other similar ensembles such as the princeton laptop orchestra, stanford laptop orchestra, and the linux laptop orchestra from virginia tech. Stanford laptop orchestra the stanford laptop orchestra slork is a largescale, computermediated ensemble and classroom that explores cuttingedge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts while radically transforming both. The princeton laptop orchestra abbreviated plork is an ensemble of computer based meta instruments at princeton university. Stanford laptop orchestra members hard at work throughout ccrma in april 2008 to finishing building the hardware and software for the ensemble. Students at the university of rochester and eastman school of music have. Students participating in stanfords laptop orchestra prepare for class.
Ge wang is an associate professor at stanford university, at the center for computer research in music and acoustics ccrma. They design new softwaremediated instruments for nearly every. The stanford laptop orchestra commenced its inaugural term in spring 2008, offering a number of performances, taking place as part of the composing, coding, and performance for laptop orchestra. Custom software instruments are developed for the ensemble primarily using the chuck and java programming languages. The laptop ensemble, or orchestra, has become a new paradigm for electroacoustic music. The stanford laptop orchestra slork will perform wednesday at the mellifluously named dinkelspiel auditorium.
The concept of a laptop orchestra has been around a decade after taking root at princeton in 2005 and stanford in 2008. The technology of stanfords laptop orchestra video. For most items, youll find a link that takes you directly to a product page or. Stanford polymath blazes a new trail with his design manifesto. In the paper, we chronicle the instantiation and adventures of the stanford laptop orchestra slork, an ensemble of laptops, humans, hemispherical speaker arrays, interfaces, and, more recently. Ge wang is an assistant professor at stanford universitys center for computer research in music and acoustics ccrma. Stanford university has a license agreement with microsoft that provides several microsoft products, including office, to faculty and staff with fullservice sunet ids. But at this rehearsal, the stanford laptop orchestra slork looks less like the symphony of the future and more like an overworked it department. Ge wang is an associate professor at stanford university in the center for computer research in music and acoustics ccrma. The stanford laptop orchestra slork is a largescale, computermediated ensemble and classroom that explores cuttingedge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts while radically transforming both.
In this context, we describe our adventures with the laptop orchestra, a new type of largescale, computermediated music ensemble and classroom. Each laptop is loaded with a nice collection of open source music software. The orchestra plays laptops like accordions, turns video games into musical scores, and harnesses facetracking software to transform webcams into instruments. Laptop, desktop, and tablet recommendations university it. Stanford laptop orchestra building an ensemble on vimeo. The orchestra plays laptops like accordions, turns video games into musical scores, and harnesses facetracking software to turn webcams into instruments. When he came to stanford, he brought the idea with him, founding the stanford laptop orchestra, or slork, during his first semester on campus. Stanford polymath blazes a new trail with his design. Classroom instantiation of the stanford laptop orchestra slork which includes public performances. A slork odyssey bing concert hall, stanford university check out current and past events.
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